Raithfyre Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 Our Kickstarter is now live! Please, check it out! The Kickstarter has ended, thanks for your support! The Demo for our game is released! We hope you'll enjoy it~ Hi everyone! I'm one of the members of an English VN project that's been going on for a while, and with our demo coming out hoooopefully next week, I wanted to go ahead and post about it here! (You might also recognize me from the other project I work on, the yuri VN Starlight Vega). My team is called AlienWorks, and our game is called The Human Reignition Project, and it's a bishoujo VN with some sci-fi elements. You play as a guy called Ken, who attends a lecture on "The impacts of technology on society," which is just what it sounds like. See, in our setting, communication between people is almost entirely digital. Text messages, instant messaging, or even phone calls; the element of face-to-face interaction is mostly gone. A lot of jobs have vanished, too, being replaced by more efficient robots that don't need a salary. Kojo, the guy organizing the lecture, comes from an older generation, and while he knows his little group isn't going to change the world, he'd at least like to try to change a couple lives. So far it all sounds pretty slice-of-life, I know, but there are some action-y, thriller-y elements that come into play later on. Can't spoil those quite yet though. What we wanted to do was create a bishoujo game with the romance focus that we all love without setting our game in a school. Yeah, there are a couple similar elements to, say, Grisaia or what have you, but for the most part we've tried to steer clear of a lot of the plot and character tropes native to the genre. That said, the game will still include 18+ content in the form of H-scenes. Real quick, I just wanted to mention a couple quick notes about the game. First off, like I said, our demo for the game should be out soon. Like, very soon. It's probably 90% done right now. The demo is all of our Act 1, which is about 30 scenes and I think somewhere around 40,000 words? We're going to launch it at the same time as a Kickstarter for our game. I know, I know, another VN on Kickstarter. Because we work with such talented artists though, we need the funding (we're talking a few hundred dollars per CG). Of course, you'll be able to play the demo without pledging money to the KS. Once the demo's done, we'll be putting in on Steam Greenlight. We're published and also somewhat funded by Sekai Project, so you'll see it under their name, not ours. Same for the Kickstarter. At the moment, I'm not entirely sure what the final price of the game will be, but I do know that if you pledge for a digital copy on KS, it'll be cheaper than buying the game off Steam. No other pre-order bonuses though; sorry CoD fans. Finally, most of us are gonna be at Anime Expo. I'll be at Sekai Project's table in the vendor hall for a lot of the time, and I might be at their panel, too. We're going to be selling a few prints done by our artists, as well as one guest piece by Doomfest. Here are previews for a couple of those: If you're interested in following along more with the game, you can follow me on twitter @Raithfyre or the team @AlienworksDev (though I also run that, heh). Also, our website is reignitionproject.com, and we post major news to blogs there. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy our game~ Just below, you can check out the character cards for our six heroines, and get an idea of what they're like. Yukino best girl, though. Stray Cat, arakura, nohman and 11 others 14 Quote
solidbatman Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 I had forgotten all about this. Looking forward to the demo! Quote
Zalor Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 The premise of the story and setting honestly interests me. Furthermore I am interested in seeing a VN that attempts to stray away from the standard cliches. I'll definitely at least check the demo out. Finally, most of us are gonna be at Anime Expo. I'll be at Sekai Project's table in the vendor hall for a lot of the time, and I might be at their panel, too. We're going to be selling a few prints done by our artists, as well as one guest piece by Doomfest. Here are previews for a couple of those: Quote
DavidA. Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 I've been following your guys' progress for a while now. I honestly can't wait for the demo! The story is interesting, the art is amazing, the whole thing just pulls you in. I wish you all luck with the development. I'll be stalking you the entire time. I'll most likely support your KS as well. P.S. <3 Yukino Quote
nohman Posted June 9, 2015 Posted June 9, 2015 This is the first time I've heard about your project, but I just want to say the premise sounds very interesting and the art looks fantastic. I'm definitely looking forward to a demo. Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 9, 2015 Author Posted June 9, 2015 Thanks so much for all the support so far! ^.^ Zalor: Unfortunately, AX is in Los Angeles, so other side of the country ;-; If you feel like traveling though, it's one of the biggest conventions in the country, so it'd probably be worth it! =P Quote
Scooter Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 I've been following you guys' twitter for a while and I'm really excited for this project! The demo's definitely on my to-play list Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 11, 2015 Author Posted June 11, 2015 Thank you so much for the support~ We've actually had a slight change of plans and it looks like we'll be launching the Kickstarter in the next couple days, slightly ahead of the demo release. Stay tuned! Quote
Kenshin_sama Posted June 12, 2015 Posted June 12, 2015 Oh yay, I'm anticipating the demo as well. I like the setting you're going for, and the character descriptions seem nice. Good luck on the project. Quote
Tyrael Posted June 12, 2015 Posted June 12, 2015 I adore the character art in this game, very nice work guys. I'm looking forward to the release Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 12, 2015 Author Posted June 12, 2015 Thank you so, so much! We actually just launched our Kickstarter campaign, slightly ahead of our demo release (though that's still coming soon). I've updated the OP to include the link, and you can also see it here! Please give it a look! Quote
Stray Cat Posted June 12, 2015 Posted June 12, 2015 Looks interesting. Is there any possibility of pay-pal support for the project? Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 12, 2015 Author Posted June 12, 2015 Yes! I'll look into PayPal support right away. Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 12, 2015 Author Posted June 12, 2015 There we go, a PayPal link has been added to the main campaign page! Quote
Stray Cat Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 There we go, a PayPal link has been added to the main campaign page! Thank you for your promptness. Just to make sure, pledging $50 through PayPal will give me a physical copy of the game correct? Quote
AaronIsCrunchy Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 The excitement is real for this demo, hope you guys manage to get to your goal on the Kickstarter! (I shouldn't have thought you'd have a problem to be honest...) How many are there involved in the project at the moment? Yukino already bestgirl :3 Quote
Rinima Posted June 14, 2015 Posted June 14, 2015 I honestly really enjoyed your april fools demo, so I'm reallllly looking forward to the actual one. Also, Senri is best girl, sorry. Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 Whoever agreed that Yukino's the best has the right idea! And I swear I'm not biased at all Our team is pretty large. Let's see... There are 6 writers. One of our writers is also a musician. There's one other musician, who's just a musician. We have two editors, a programmer and our scene director. Our scene director also made our videos, UI, various other graphics, and also composed the song that's in the trailer. We have a background artist, though the demo utilizes BG's from two other artists who aren't her. Then we have two CG artists and a sprite artist. Quote
Kenshin_sama Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 Might just be my inner moefag, but my vote goes to Hitomi. Still, my mind could easily change once I start reading. Quote
Rinima Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 Whoever agreed that Yukino's the best has the right idea! And I swear I'm not biased at all Our team is pretty large. Let's see... There are 6 writers and two editors. One of our writers is also a musician. There's one other musician, who's just a musician. We have two editors, a programmer and our scene director. Our scene director also made our videos, UI, various other graphics, and also composed the song that's in the trailer. We have a background artist, though the demo utilizes BG's from two other artists who aren't her. Then we have two CG artists and a sprite artist. Sooo..... 12 of you? Quote
Raithfyre Posted June 22, 2015 Author Posted June 22, 2015 Our game's demo is now live! Please check it out! Do note that the Android version is experimental and might be a little buggy. Helvetica Standard, AaronIsCrunchy, Ene and 1 other 4 Quote
DavidA. Posted June 22, 2015 Posted June 22, 2015 Congrats on the demo release and the kickstarter, guys! I downloaded the demo the other night and read a good portion of it. I really enjoyed how you used the sprite movements. The sudden close–up of Senri's face after Kojo's lecture made me laugh out loud. I plan on finishing the rest later today to give my full thoughts on it. Love the story so far. (b~_^)b Quote
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